Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A study, often using statistics, that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or literary context.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, the description of any one's personal appearance.
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- noun a
study of theindividuals in agroup of people within a specificcontext and theirrelationships
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the mid-twentieth century, another major contribution was a large project in what the Greeks called prosopography, or collective biography.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In the mid-twentieth century, another major contribution was a large project in what the Greeks called prosopography, or collective biography.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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John Frazee within the home by utilizing a prosopography of New York's organized men between 1800 and 1840.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Chapter One employs a prosopography of over one thousand trade unionists and Working Men's Party operatives based on an extensive analysis of census, tax list, probate, insolvency, and other documents.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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It can stand with such a tower of prosopography as Sir Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution 1939, repr. variously.
Archive 2007-10-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007
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The Randolphs of Turkey Island: A prosopography of the first three generations, 1650-1806 Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1977.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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The Randolphs of Turkey Island: A prosopography of the first three generations, 1650-1806 Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1977.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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It can stand with such a tower of prosopography as Sir Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution 1939, repr. variously.
The Rest Patrick J. Smith 2007
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V. -- I pardon this epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity --
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Despite all differences of approach, he himself wrote only two years ago, "Ronald Syme wrote superbly and authoritatively when he used prosopography to clarify a revolutionary movement ” the upsurge of new social strata under Augustus" (English Historical Review, 1973, p. 115; compare his review of The Roman Revolution reprinted in Secondo Contributo alla Storia degli Studi Classici, 1960, 207 f. and his remarks in Studi Romani 14, 1966, 1-3).
Bearing Gifts Lloyd-Jones, Hugh 1976
jmjarmstrong commented on the word prosopography
JM wants to encourage prosopography as a way of keeping up appearances.
April 2, 2010
oroboros commented on the word prosopography
Group biography or study of a group of people.
October 10, 2010
qms commented on the word prosopography
A single life limned is biography.
A people detailed is demography.
If a history lacks
Both gossip and facts
It's probably prosopography.
May 5, 2015
Gammerstang commented on the word prosopography
The description of a person's appearance
January 8, 2018